TagPeter Atkins

World-renowned chemist thinks it might understand what we can’t, including consciousness

Denyse O'Leary

August 31, 2018

Atkins is arguing that the fact that we do not understand what consciousness is, far from being a barrier to creating artificial consciousness, offers the hope that, once we do create them, artificially conscious entities will understand consciousness but we won’t. The proposition sounds a bit confused, no? Read More ›

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